Chapter 16 Part 1

Atlantic Revolutions

 Eurocentrism

  •  Meaning=focusing on European culture or history to the exclusion of a wider view of the world; implicitly regarding European culture as preeminent
  • The rise of Europe was due to an international context, for example, they were able to  it was the withdrawal of the Chinese naval fleet that allowed Europeans to enter the Indian Ocean in the 16 and 17th centuries. Navite Americans lacked the immunity of European diseases 
  • Industrial Revolution also benefited from the New World resources and markets 
  • The rise of Europe to a position of global dominance was not an easy automatic process
Atlantic Revolutions: Global Context
  • By 1730s the Safavid dynasty that ruled Persia (Iran) for several centuries had completely collapsed, Mughal Empire governing India fragmented  Wahhabi movement in Arabia seriously threatened the Ottoman Empire, religious ideals informed major political upheavals in Central Asia
  • Russian Empire under Catherine the Great experienced a series of peasant uprisings, in China too rebellions like the Taiping revolution 1850-1864

  • Atlantic Revolutions in N. America, France and Haiti and Latin America took place in larger global framework
  • The costly wars that strained European imperial states (Britain, France and Spain) were global rather regional
  • France joined N.America to fight British to help them seek independence
  • Britain launched series of additional taxes in N.America without warning
  • French Monarchy also seeked new revenue adding taxes



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